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- noun Plural form of
sanbenito .
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Examples
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Such were the objects who headed the ghastly procession, who seemed as effectually doomed to death as if they wore the sanbenitos of the condemned heretics in an auto-da-fe.
Old Mortality 2004
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Didn't they give the condemned in this country sanbenitos to wear?
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Then 'twas in this city Captain Robert Baldry and Ralph Walter and more than they, dressed in _sanbenitos_, burning in the market-place ....
Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903
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Such were the objects who headed the ghastly procession, who seemed as effectually doomed to death as if they wore the sanbenitos of the condemned heretics in an auto-da-fe.
Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Such were the objects who headed the ghastly procession, who seemed as effectually doomed to death as if they wore the sanbenitos of the condemned heretics in an auto-da-fe.
Old Mortality, Volume 2. Walter Scott 1801
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Many marched through street, forced to wear sanbenitos (robe and hood of yellow or black for accused heretics) and killed.
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